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B. P. STAGGS.

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Patented May 3, 1887..

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

lBENJAllIIN F. STAGGS, OF HENDERSONVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA.

CHURN.

SPECIFICATION forming pari'. of Letters Patent No. 362,401. dated May 3,1887.

Application filed February 25, 1887. Serial No. 228,820. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN a citizen of the United States, residing atHendersonville, in the county of Henderson and State of North Carolina,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Churns; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a part of this specication, and to the letters and iigures ofreference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a vperspective view of my improvedchurn,with the cylinder partly broken away to show the stationary F.STAeGs,

- dasher located therein; and Fig. 2` an end view thereof, showing theposition of the cylinder in dotted lines to show the manner ofv removingit from its supporting-frame.

The present invention has relation to that class of churns in which thecylinder is mounted upon a rocking frame, and the object thereof is toimprove the construction of this class of churns, whereby it canbeconveniently Ie-v moved from the frame, in connection with the otherdetails of construction, which will be hereinafter described, andsubsequently pointedout in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the rocking frame, thestandards a thereof being arranged at an angle and approaching eachother at their upper ends, at which-point they are connected in anysuitable manner.

The churn-cylinder B is provided at its ends with angular sockets C, toreceive the upper ends of the standards a, whereby the churncylinder issupported on the rocking frame. The churn-cylinder is also provided atits top and near its ends with suitable handles, b, and the cylinder haslocated within it a stationary dasher, D, extending diametrically acrossthe cylinder, and of sufficient height to extend into a dome, E, closedby a suitable cover, c, and is held in position by cleats d, or by anyother preferred means that will admit of the dasher being removedthrough the dome E.

The churn-cylinder near one end is provided with a suitable faucet, e,lfor drawing offA the milk after the churning has been completed. Bymeans of the extension which forms the cover'c would be on the sameplane with the body of the churn-cylinder, and without some means o-ffastening the cover down the milk or cream coming against it in theprocess of churning would tend to loosen or raise the cover and work outthrough the opening. Thus by raising the cover some distance above thebody of the churn-cylinder I have remedied this difficulty; but theemployment of the angular sockets O upon the ends of the churn-cylinder,in connection with the standards c, arranged at an angle, as shown, thenecessity of lifting the cylinder bodily off the supporting or rockingframe is rendered unnecessary.

Vhen it is desired to remove the churncylinder, all that is required isto take hold of the handles b and bring it toward you, as shown indotted lines, acting as a fulcrum while the cylinder is beingdisconnected therefrom, and when brought in the position, as shown, itwill slide off to one side of the frame without any lifting.

The angle of the sockets C, together with the standards a, arranged at acorresponding angle, enables .the churn-cylinder to be readily andeasily removed fronrthe rocking frame A, when found necessary.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

In a churn, the combination, with the cylinder thereof provided withhandles and angular sockets at its ends, yof a rocking frame forsupporting the cylinder, having standards arranged at an angle with eachotherand engaging with said sockets, substantially as and for thepurpose speciiied.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

B. F. STAGGS. lVitnesses:

C. M. PACE, 1)..M. HoDGEs.

Fig. 2, the standards a

